Baling-press.



No. 809,931. PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906. J. L. GOLDIRON.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11.1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed July 11, 1905. Serial No. 269,156.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES LIOURGES Coro- IROX, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Voolsey, in district 20 and Indian Territory, have invented new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a baling-press especially adapted for baling hay or straw, but not limited thereto.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine with a large capacity characterized particularly by the fact that it has two opposite baling-chambers and a reciprocating plunger which compresses the material alternately in each chamber, a feeding-hopper being provided at the middle to supply the material to both chambers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are elevations of opposite sides of the machine. Fig. 3 is a central vertical crosssection. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the pitman and its connections.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 5 and 6 indicate front and rear baling-chambers mounted upon the front and rear axles 7 and 8. At the middle of the box, between the baling-chambers, is a hopper 9, which delivers material through an opening 10 in the top of the frame of the press into the middle space of the box between the chambers. 11 indicates a plunger which reciproeates in said space, and this plunger is carried by a bar 12, which projects through slots 13 in the sides of the frame and is provided at its end with journals on which turn the antifriction-wheels 14, which roll between upper and lower tracks 15, secured on the outside of the frame. The projecting ends of the bar 12 beyond the wheel are socketed into the heads of the castings 16, mounted upon the outer ends of a sliding cross head orbeam 1 7 ,which reciprocates under the bottom frame of the chambers upon guide-bars 18 secured thereto. The bars work through straps 19, secured to the under side of the cross-head.

The cross-head is connected to and operated by a pitman 20 from a crank 21, supported in hangers 22 on the frame. The

pitman works above the rear axle in a space provided-by the side bolsters or blocks 23, upon which the rear baling chamber is blocked up from the rear axle.

The crankshaft 21 has thereon a gear-wheel 24, meshing with a driving-pinion 25, the shaft 25 of which is supported by a hanger 26 and has thereon a belt-pulley 27, to which power may be transmitted from any suitable motor. The feeder for the press is also driven by the shaft 25. This shaft has a sprocket-wheel 28, connected bya chain 28 to another sprocketwheel 29, mounted upon one end of a shaft 30, which has bearings on and extends across the top of the bailing-chamber. The shaft 30 has at the other end a bevel-gear 31 in mesh with a companion gear 32 on the shaft of a roller 33 at the inner end of a belt conveyer 34, the outer end of whichpasses around another roller 35. The rollers are supported by a frame 36, mounted upon the balingchamber and so located that the conveyer carries the hay or straw into the hopper, from which it drops into the baling-chamber. The conveyer extends laterally a convenient distance, so that the hayor straw maybe pitched from the barn or stack.

The wheels 14, traveling on the tracks 15, serve to prevent friction of the bar 12 against the edges of the slot 13. As the hay is fed in at the top the reciprocating plunger presses the same first one'way and then another and forms a bale in each chamber. The mechanism by which the power is applied to the plunger is located under the chamber so that it is out of the way. The pitman connection is at the middle of the cross-head 17, so that equal pressure is applied to both ends of the cross-head.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a baling -press, in combination, a

press-box having a middle receiving-champress-box having a middle receiving-cha1n-- her and end baling-chambers, the side walls of the middle chamber being slotted, a reciprocating plunger in the box, having a bar projecting through the slots, a cross-head reciprocating under the box and having upivardly-mojecting castings rigidly mounted name to this specification in the presence of thereofi anlcll (fzonnected to the ends of the hi5, two subscribing witnesses. at cran -s a t eXtendin across under t e box, and a pitman conn ected to the crank- JAMES LICURGES OOLDIRON' 5 shaft and to the cross-head at the middle Witnesses:

thereof. S. G. BROWN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my i W. L. CLICK. 

